Assistant VP, Anti-Money Laundering & KYC, GWB

Posting Date: 6 Oct 2023

Location:
Singapore (City Area), Singapore, 048624

Company: United Overseas Bank Ltd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

The Wholesale Bank function operates a dynamic business model that provides financial services and solutions to help our clients achieve their strategic business objectives. Our mission is to become the premier-provider of banking services and solutions for Asia-based commercial banking companies (small medium enterprises), large corporations, financial institutions as well as multinational corporations. Our coverage teams work in full alignment with specialised teams across Transaction Banking, Investment Banking, Global Markets and Group Retail to deliver seamless solutions to our clients.

Job Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be assigned to the AML & KYC Team ("the Team") whereby its key responsibility is to ensure that the customer due diligence (CDD) program, incorporating customer identification and verification (ID&V), know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) principles are in place. The team will support the various business segments within Group Wholesale Banking comprising of Corporates and Financial Institutions in performing the CDD reviews, in meeting regulatory requirements and helping to grow the business.

The role entails:
• Preparation of documentation and conduct CDD in a timely manner
• To liaise with RMs on the required documentation
• Ensure that ongoing CDD reviews are conducted in tandem with internal process and policies
• Ensure data accuracy in systems and documentations
• Extraction of data from worksheets and reports for distribution to respective Business segments for necessary follow-up actions
• Assisting BUs to respond to various CDD enquiries, which may originate from the local authorities or from correspondent banks, over client's profile
• Perform screening assessment and escalate material hits, where applicable for further clearance.
• Assisting the Team Leader in providing regular statistics and presentations for updating to Senior Management
• Participating in ad-hoc assignments and projects, e.g., audit, user acceptance testing etc. where required
• Providing advisory support to the BUs in CDD related matters, where applicable

Job Requirements

• Tertiary holder and above
• Prior working experience in KYC roles, will be advantageous
• Detail-oriented, yet able to think flexibly and independently to resolve problems
• Maintaining a high degree of knowledge in MAS 626 regulations and associated regulatory requirements for AML/CFT and Sanctions.
• Emotionally mature and able to communicate maturely and independently with various stakeholders within the Bank
• Comfortable with handling data, and able to perform functions on Excel, such as Vlookup, Pivoting and generating various graphs / charts, etc.
• Attentive to details with a strong sense of interest in developing a career as a KYC specialist
• Good command of both written and spoken English. The ability to speak / read additional languages is an advantage

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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